Thrilled that Medical Humanities @OxMedHum received the 2025 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research Culture. A true pleasure to lead this @TORCHOxford research hub. – at Oxford, England

Historian friend: It almost looks like the entrance to a magical world. Nerdy me: Ah, but it is! – at Paris, France

Snow in Texas:

In times like these, thank goodness for the Oxford History of Medicine Library, which holds timeless classics such as The Glands of Destiny.

Grateful for such beauty, books, and people at Oxford.

It seems apt to have to cross a moat by drawbridge in order to do historical research in the archives.

Tonight's view.

In other news, I made a giant Chipwich.

Fascinating and entertaining talk on 1918 epidemic and phylogenetics of viruses - R/T @phl43. Great integration of #histmed and tattoos of Darwin's drawings. youtu.be/48Klc3DPdtk

There's plenty of terrible stuff going on, but I love the stories of community too. Husband and I are doing matzos on wheels - I thought he was joking but it really IS matzos.

I'd love more readers for my disease history book but - honestly - Mark Harrison's Contagion is a great history of modern disease and global commerce, and helps explain why people are still debating quarantine #histmed yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780…

Invigorating workshop on Imperial Gardens @KensingtonRoyal with so many wonderful people from @kewgardens @NMMGreenwich and beyond. Just wish we could've held it in the gardens.

And evensong again...